On February 25, 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights issued updated guidance and FAQs regarding an individual's right to access its protected health information...

For the past few years, the Office of Inspector General of the United States Department of Health and Human Services has been reviewing Medicare payments to hospitals to determine compliance with selected billing requirements.

The recent record-setting data breach at Anthem, Inc. involving nearly 80 million individuals, and a similar data breach at Premera Blue Crossinvolving as many as 11 million more individuals, underscore the important and challenging task of safeguarding consumer health data.